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Valeria Betancourt
@valeriabet.bsky.social
Digital rights activist. Sin música, nada. Detesto los lunes. Fotos, mías.
Meet APC's internet governance lead, Valeria Betancourt. Recognised in the Tech Diplomacy Global 50, Valeria is helping shape responsible technology policy worldwide. This week, she's also serving as a High-Level Track Facilitator at #WSIS2026.
As the UN prepares for next week’s Global Dialogue on AI Governance, GNI’s Jason Pielemeier, Elonnai Hickok, & CCG's Jhalak Kakkar examine WSIS as critical lessons for AI governance, from multistakeholder approaches to accountability & implementation: globalnetworkinitiative.org/as-the-un-la...
As the UN Launches its Global Dialogue on AI Governance, WSIS Offers Critical Lessons - Global Network Initiative
This article was republished with consent from Tech Policy Press. By Jason Pielemeier (GNI), Elonnai […]
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'...The cancellation had exposed the vulnerability of countries in Africa with a dependency on foreign investment and funding (deals by both China and the US were mentioned), but for many in APC, it also spoke of the collapse of the whole ecosystem of rights.' www.apc.org/en/news/rebu...
Rebuilding solidarity and trust: The APC community reflects on the cancellation of RightsCon and learnings moving forward
The shock of the cancellation of RightsCon in Zambia this year is still reverberating across civil society, with many viewing it as unprecedented. In this piece, voices from APC’s community around the...
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¿Yo sería yo? Vi voces. El amor o mar. ¡Adiós, ola! Lo solo soy, sola luna. ¡Ola, Sol! La sed de sal lo saló. ¡Hola, luna! ¡Ola, sol! La sed de sal lo saló. ¡Anúlalo! ¡Hola, sol! La sed de sal lo saló. ¡Anúlalos! Yo sólo sola, los oí dar amor o males. Eco vivo y aire soy.
Is @signal.org down? I am not managing to connect to it today.
The silent coop against Brazil’s Internet: www.komaitis.org/write-share-...
The Silent Coup Against Brazil’s Internet
Last week, I was in Brazil and had the chance to engage directly with CGI.br (the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee) and the broad community of stakeholders it brings together. The energy,...
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"Alaa is free, but he doesn’t have justice. There’s still so many thousands of political prisoners in Egypt, including dozens who are behind bars simply for speaking out in solidarity with Palestine and against Israel’s genocide.” www.democracynow.org/2025/9/23/al... #Egypt #PoliticalPrisoners
Alaa Abd El-Fattah Is Free: Family Celebrates Political Prisoner’s Release in Egypt
Egypt’s best-known political prisoner, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, was granted a presidential pardon on Monday and has reunited with his family after spending most of the last 12 years in prison. The writer a...
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Connectivity gaps persist between regions and within countries. At the heart of these challenges lies a common denominator: financing. ---> Read more in our new piece on financing #DigitalEquity at #WSIS20: A task force to turn commitments into action www.apc.org/en/news/fina...
Financing digital equity at WSIS+20: A task force to turn commitments into action
Over the past two decades, the WSIS process has served as a valuable platform for dialogue, target setting and multistakeholder engagement. Yet the digital divide remains stubbornly entrenched. At the...
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'This move represents a dangerous escalation in efforts to silence human rights experts and discredit international accountability mechanisms.' www.apc.org/en/pubs/join...
Joint statement: Civil society urges end to sanctions on UNSR Francesca Albanese, demands big tech accountability for violations in Palestine
We, the undersigned civil society organisations, express our grave concern over the unprecedented decision by the United States government to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations...
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#UNGA #WSIS20 1st prep meeting: Philippines suggests anchoring #GlobalDigitalCompact in the larger framework of the #WSIS. (This GDC vs WSIS framing issue will no doubt continue to loom large throughout the WSIS+20 review process)
Justicia digital, ¡ya! Un llamado a la acción hacia la CMSI+20 y más allá 👇 www.apc.org/es/pubs/just... #CMSI @wsis20sec.bsky.social #JusticiaDigital
Conocí a Alfons hace poco en la presentación de su libro más reciente. Esto que ha escrito sobre Mujica no tiene desperdicio. Sí que sé que Mujica seguirá siempre en la memoria de quienes saben que sin dignidad la vida es un estercolero donde se pudre la decencia. www.publico.es/opinion/colu...
En la vida y la muerte de José Mujica
Allá que viene con su Vespa, como si fuera Nanni Moretti por las calles de Roma.
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A call from UN experts for us all: States, civil society, businesses – every one who believes in ‘international law, justice, human rights, peace, security and sustainable development’ – must come together to defend these values and institutions that safeguard them. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
The new US administration must recommit to human rights at home and abroad: UN experts
GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today expressed concerns about the new US administration’s recent actions that undermine human rights and fundamental freedoms at both domestic and international leve...
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We refuse to accept a digital order dictated by corporate greed and state control. We demand a digital future that belongs to the people... www.apc.org/en/pubs/glob...
Global Digital Justice Forum Johannesburg Communique: Now is the time to take action for digital justice
The Global Digital Justice Forum, a coalition of civil society organisations from the Global Majority, including APC, decries the tightening stranglehold of political and corporate authoritarianism on...
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"The Paris Summit’s failure may yet serve one useful purpose: as a wake-up call. It has shown, definitively, that the current approach to AI governance is broken. The question now is whether we have time to fix it." www.transformernews.ai/p/paris-ai-s...
The embarrassing failure of the Paris AI Summit
Experts are sounding the alarm — but governments simply won’t listen
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Aquí vamos: nueva edición de KYD 1-1, mi clínica de edición. Es simple: tienen un proyecto grande (en general, un libro) y necesitan un editor que ayude a darle forma. Heme aquí. Sufre el texto, no el ego. Inicio: 20/02 Más detalles: info@diegofonseca.com y DM. ¿Ayudan con RT-repost?
I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋
We have an open position at Tecnología Crítica. We are looking for a Communications coordinator. Come join our wonderful team! 👇 #jobalert criti.ca/team/job-pos...
Job posting Critica is looking for a Communications Coordinator
We are an experimental consultancy firm on digital tech policy
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Hay quien solo se preocupa por las mujeres sirias y su vestimenta ahora, y no cuando estaban en prisión, siendo torturadas o asesinadas. Hoy publico en @elpais.com: elpais.com/opinion/2024... #Siria
Siria y los peros
Hay quien solo se preocupa por las mujeres y su forma de vestir ahora, no cuando estaban en prisión, siendo torturadas o asesinadas
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Estaría bien hacer un hilo con los mejores diagramas de Venn. Me haríais muy feliz. Venga, va. Empiezo yo con estos dos
María de la Ohlala@menchubasquero.bsky.social · 2y agoTodos TODOS los diagramas de Venn son obras de arte.
Clementina al viento. O, en su defecto, una clementina haciendo equilibrio en las alturas.
Which governments impose SIM-card registration laws to collect data on their citizens? www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-pri... I am not aware of any research showing that mandatory SIM registration results in safer societies. Yet here we are.
Which governments impose SIM-card registration laws to collect data on their citizens? - Comparitech
Just over 5.4 billion people worldwide have mobile phones, accounting for almost 70 percent of the entire global population, according to the GSM Association. The majority of national governments (aro...
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"Reza, reza o rio Córrego pro rio e o rio pro mar Reza a correnteza, roça a beira, doura a areia Marcha o homem sobre o chão."
Are you attending the #AWID2024 Forum? Join us in shaping the narrative around technology-facilitated gender-based violence in how it affects women, LGBTQI+ persons, and our capacity to use technology. apc.org/node/40429 #GenderViolenceOnline #AWIDForum2024 #RisingTogether
APC at the 15th AWID International Forum 2024
Technology is a feminist issue. Technology is an issue for all feminists.From 2 to 5 December, APC will join the 15th AWID International Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, which is both a global community ev...
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